Dick Marron wrote:
> If mites just cloned themselves, there would be no variation and they could
> not adapt. Since it's obviously true that mites DO adapt, especially to our
> pesticides then they are not just clones of each other. 
There is a revolution going on now in the genetic world. Much of what 
was thought to be true is not.

One interesting find is that bacteria can "infect" the egg DNA of 
invertebrates with their DNA so the mites could easily be clones but get 
pesticide resistance from the bacteria! So you can have clones and you 
can have adaptation at the same time.

Prior studies found this but discounted the DNA bacteria snippets as 
contamination of the sample.

Bill Truesdell
Bath, Maine

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